Native Ferns, Moss, and Grasses.NATIVE FERNS, MOSS, AND GRASSES WILLIAM CULLINA In contrast to their 50-foot-tall predecessors that towered beside the dinosaurs, modern day club-mosses creep along the forest floor from the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. to the tundra. Gardeners may wish to add these ancient plants, which come in lovely tones of yellow and green, to their yards. Cullina warns, however, that cultivation of clubmoss is difficult; even the fungal microrrhizae they live with must survive transplant. But this author has done it, and describes how. Most other species covered in this encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. 2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" book survive more easily. Broom moss, for example, grows on rocks and retains a deep-green color even when dry or frozen. Mosses, ferns, and grasses sophisticate a landscape by sewing together flowers against a lime, chartreuse chartreuse (shärtr  z`), liqueur made exclusively by Carthusians at their monastery, La Grande Chartreuse, France, until their expulsion in 1903. , or emerald background. Houghton
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